Church Search

Two Sundays ago upon our move to Mississippi Amanda and I began our first church hunt in 7+ years. It is very strange, and I do not like it a bit. I am not sure how people are able to do it for a long period of time. So far no decision on a church home, but we hope to make one as quickly as possible.

On churches in Mississippi to date: Both places we have attended seem to have everyone who wants participate in music. They both had choirs, and a lead singer, and a guitarist, and a drummist, and a keyboardist. One of them had an orchestra and praise team too. It was rather fascinating. Both churches so far used media shout. I could tell because of the backgrounds used for some of the slides. The first preacher pretty much read a scripture verse, and then he proceeded to rehash the scripture just expanding the storytelling. The other one was less smooth, but with a better message. Both of the churches had a time at the end where people could come up to the front to either talk with a pastor or pray. No one came up. The demographics at both churches tended towards an older crowd so far as I can tell.

The big thing that struck me after the second (and then thinking back to the first it was the same) is that it was too easy to just leave and walk out the door. Nobody grabbed my attention introduced themselves after the service or tried to have a conversation. Everyone went on there merry ways. This is even though we parked in guest spots at both places and people walked by as we got in our cars.